Ingalls Defeated Star Chamber Caucus In Ballot Contest
Yoreka Kan Jan 27 Farmers Alliance caucus nominated W A Peffer on the seventeenth ballot with a full alliance House vote. Espionage guarded proceedings and entrants showed credentials before entry. Peffer led on final ballots 76 to 38 and later 96 to 23 in the House with Ingalls and others receiving smaller tallies. Vilas elected Wisconsin senator by party line vote in both houses.
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Yoreka
Kan
Farmers’ Alliance
W. A. Peffer
Kansas Farmer
House
Senate
Peffer
Alliance
Star Chamber
Capitol
Kansas City
Kas
J. J. Rice
Fort Scott
Wallitts
Elder
Doster
Mr. Elder
Ingalls
Co. W. Blair
Vilas
Wisconsin
Manson
Wis
William Vilas
John 8
Spooner
United States
Moody loses votes as fusionists seek seat for Lawrence men
Precere 8 D January 27 reports two ballots for United States senator. Moody loses two votes. The House, in a long session, attempts to seat four contestants from Lawrence county. Blake seated over Fowler while the assembly adjourns. Outlook favors Moody’s defeat and possible moves by Mollette or Melville. Republicans discouraged by Fowler’s unseating. fusionists may unseat others as six ballots total yield no choice. Springfield DL January 27 notes six ballots in joint assembly with no change.
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Precere
United States
Moody
House
Lawrence County
Blake
Indiana
Fowler
Mollette
Melville
Illinois
Springfield
Joint Assembly
Nowell Ames Wedding at ExGovernor Ames Home
Miss Anna Lee Ames daughter of ex Governor Ames wed George M. Nowell at Commonwealth avenue residence in a quiet ceremony at 11:45 a.m. Rev W L Chaffin officiated. Fifty relatives attended. They left for Europe aboard the Spree today for a year or more in the Continent.
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Oliver Ames
Commonwealth Avenue
West Chester Park
Anna Lee Ames
George M. Nowell
W. L. Chaffin
Unitarian Church
North Easton
Willis Nowell
Irving Blake
John P. Squire
George W. Squire
Shepard Street
North
Cambridge
Minnie Debster
Biddeford
G. H. Whittemore
G. W. Roberts
F. Ri. McDonald
H. B Coe
Frank Hayden
Randolph Surbridge
R. D. Blaisdell
G. L. Darling
Mrs. Squire
Charlestown Park Locations Voted At Commissioners Hearing
Charlestown Park hearing heard citizens present plans for sites around Mystic River and Bunker Hill. Keyes proposed Mystic Waterman wharf area. Bartlett urged Main Medford Bunker Hill converge area. Stone favored northerly Mystic River tract with land near Maiden Bridge and additional parcels. Van Nostrand backed the Fong site for lower cost. A broad mix of support and opposition noted, with the board to visit sites and decide.
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Park Commissioners
Charlestown Park
James Keyes
Mystic
Waterman’s Wharf
City
Joseph EB. Bartlett
Main
Medford
Bunker Hill
Main Streets
Mystic River
P. Joseph Stone
Maiden Bridge
Boston
Everett
K. W.T. van Nostrand
Vaaill Fong
Tufts
Guild
William Hichborne
Mr. Keyes
Mill Pond
W. H. Preble
Medford Street
Quincy
North Mead Street
Quinn
Henry Woodberry
T. J. Brinnan
J. J. Cornett
Edward Saie
George S. Pendergast
Brackett as Boston postmaster candidate eyed by insiders
Ex Governor John Q. Brackett is discussed as a possible Boston postmaster to replace General Corse. Washington hints trigger a push, but Brackett reportedly would not accept the appointment. Curtis Monday night’s GOP backing strengthens supporters who favor home talent, with Boston business interests mobilizing petitions and a strong local consensus for a homegrown choice.
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Boston Post Office
John Q
Brackett
Republican City Committee
Curtis
Boston
General Corse
Weather Indications Post's Forecast for NE and Texas
Northern New England sees cloudy skies with flurries and variable winds. tonight clouds ease as it warms. Southern New England: partly cloudy, southwest winds, rising temperatures. Thursday expected fair and warmer with similar trend continued tonight. Weather synoptic notes place center of storm in Western Texas with scattered precipitation from New York coast to Nova Scotia.
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New England
St. Paul
Marquette
Dodge City
Galveston
Texas
Atlantic
Nova Scotia
Nebraska
Colorado
Kansas City
New Orleans
Eastport
Mississippi Valley
Minnesota
Lakes
Mississippi
New York
Montreal
Block Island
Their Last Hope Gone Cameron Called a Traitor
In a tense Senate session on January 27, the force bill moves toward defeat as Cameron of Pennsylvania faces party attacks from Republicans. Democrats celebrate a setback for the cloture measure while Stanford, Hearst, and others show mixed signals amid injuries and political maneuvering.
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Washington
Senate
Cameron
Pennsylvania
Ingrate
Ingalls
Kansas
Stanford
City
New York
Hearst
California
Davenport
Powell
Lodge
Hoar
Messrs
Government Asked to Issue Silver Certificates Upon Potatoes
The U.S. Senate discussed issuing government certificates for potatoes at $1 per bushel. Debates covered credentials for California and South Carolina senators, anti-counterfeiting measures, and a House bill on Indian depredations. A plan to expand the House representation to 360 seats was debated without action before adjournment. Social Church Problems convention in Portland Maine marks the 10th anniversary of the Williston Society of Christian Endeavor led by Rev. F. E. Clark.
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Senate
Stanford
Irby
California
South Carolina
Hoar
Harris
Frye
Treasury
Edmunds
Judiciary Committee
Plumb
Dolph
House
Davis
Arkansas
Minnesota
Missouri
New York
Berry
Hale
Portland
Society of Christian Endeavor
Williston Congregational Church
F. E. Clark
Williston
Nine State Union
United Society
Williston Church
Clark
City Hall
Burleigh
Melcher
DM. Pratt
Baer
Co. P. Mills
Newburyport
A. Dickinson
Berkeley Temple
Boston
A. H. Primp
D.D
C.M. Southgate
Worcester
Mass
George HB. Wells
Montreal
W.T. Chase
Ruggies Street Baptist Church
N. Boynton
E. P. Farnum
Salem
W. R. Harper
Yale
Farrar
Albany
N.Y
J. W. Hamilton
AE. Dunning
Congregationalist
E. K. Alden
American Board
C. P. Gifford
K. L. Greene
W. Richard Foss
C. E. Leach
New England
Central States
Spinola Doubts Force Bill Dead Amid House Debate
In Washington on January 27 the House moved into committee for the Military Academy bill while debate touched policy questions. Mr Spinola challenged the fate of the force bill, saying he would not believe it dead until seen buried with rites, as Bland urged to lay it on the table. The session closed after further remarks on the Indian war and the election bill.
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Washington
House
Rogers
Arkansas
Flower
New York
Wheeler
Alabama
R. Spinola
Bland
Corinthian Navy holds first annual meeting at Marlborough
In New York on January 27 the first annual meeting of the Corinthian Navy was held at the Marlborough Hotel. Charles M Connollys was reelected admiral, Thomas T Tabor vice admiral, and Frank B Jones purser.
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New York
Corinthian Navy
Marlborough Hotel
Charles M. Connollys
Thomas T. Tabor
Frank B. Jones
Charitable Irish Society Fixes 154th Dinner at Parker House
The society’s special committee met at Parker House with General M T Donahue presiding and appointed subcommittees for reception dinner music and decorations. They plan the March 17 dinner at Parker House with notable guests including the governor the mayor the port collector and leaders of Scotch British and French Charitable Societies. Mr P Donahoe will mark fifty years of membership on March 17.
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Irish Society
Parker House
M. T. Donahue
P. Donahoe
Dancing for Charity at Cotillion Hall Sounds of Germania Orchestra
About 500 couples and friends of the Ladies Charitable Aid Society gathered at Cotillion Hall for a charity dance. The Germania Orchestra played, with the grand march led by president and Francis Carr as clue marshal, while David F. Baxter and many assistants supervised the floor.
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Ladies’ Charitable Aid Society
Cotillion Hall
Germania Orchestra
Francis Carr
David F. Baxter
Elected Captain of the Lancers at Armory Meeting
A meeting of the Lancers held in the Armory on Bullfinch Street last evening elected First Lieutenant Addison P Nichols as captain, marking a leadership change within the unit.
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THE
Lancers
Bullfinch Street
de Onates
Addison P. Nichols
Resignation Clash At Church Of The Messiah Auburndale
Letter to the editor details the dispute over Rev. Metcalf’s resignation effective May 1 1891. It claims arrears and ongoing salary must be paid, records submitted for erasure of alleged slurs, and criticizes an anti church faction while noting vestry support and unpaid funds totaling about 1500 dollars.
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Boston
Auburndale
Metcalf
The Sherman Association Ball Honors A Shuman Members
The A Shuman Co Mutual Benefit Association founded in 1880 held its annual ball at Odd Fellows' Hall last evening. Officers for the year are John O'Brien president George E Brig ham vice president Walter E Simmons treasurer and Frank C Bradman secretary. Notable guests included Mr and Mrs A Shuman Mr and Mrs S Shuman Sidney and Edmund Shuman and others from New York and local circles.
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Sherman Association
A. Shuman & Company Mutual Benefit Association
A. Shuman & Co
John O’brien
George E. Brigham
Walter E. Simmons
Frank C. Bradman
Odd Fellows
A. Shuman
8. Shuman
Messrs
Sidney and
Edmund Shuman
A. Steinert
Calvin B. Smith
Weston Lewis
G. M.lownsend
David T. Barry
William W. Waugh
Isaac Rosnosky
Joseph Mode
J. Devere
New York
Boston Merchants Association banquet attracts many orders
The Executive Committee reports a large response to ticket notices for the annual banquet. Guests from abroad include prominent businessmen, bankers, and railroad men. Governor Bullock of Georgia will attend with friends, Colonel J A Price of Noranton, Pa., active in National Association reorganization, and Hon William E Curtis of the Department of State, manager of the Bureau of American Republics, will be present.
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Boston Merchants’ Association
Bullock
Georgia
J. A. Price
Ncranton
Penn
Rsoarch of Trade
William E. Curtis
Department of State
Bureau of American Republics
Women Vote at 22d Annual Massachusetts Suffrage Meet
The Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association held its twenty second annual meeting with sessions in Tremont Temple and Meionnon commemorating the fortieth anniversary of the 1850 Worcester convention. Lucy Stone presided and spoke on Gains of Forty Years noting free speech education occupation and rights to children property and school committee votes. Colonel Higginson spoke on Landmarks of Progress stressing equal rights and representation. Evening programs featured Howe on Women in Literature Campbell on Working Women and Blackwell urging broader suffrage and welfare reforms. The business session reported a balance of 500.78 with reports from organizers and letters from governors.
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Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association
Worcester
Tremont Temple
Meionnon
Lucy Stone
Oberlin
Wellesley
Vassar
Cornell
Michigan University
Mary A. Greene
Boston
Deborah
Aspasia
Hortensia
Europe
England
Arabella A. Mansfield
Iowa
Washington University of St.Louis
Phoebe Cousins
Columbia
Yale
Harvard
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Higginson
North
South
Association of Collegiate Alumni
Kansas
Kansas Alliance
West
Wyoming
Arizona
United States Senate
Antoinette Brown Blackwell
Sallie Joy White
Julia Ward Howe
Maria Lydia Child
Tiemans
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Cobbe
Goome Eliot
Margaret Fuller
Sybil
Mrs. Howe
Lydia Maria Child
Hannah Adams
Helen Campbell
Psychic research meeting reports in automatic writing and Mrs Piper
The American branch of the Society for Psychical Research met at Association Hall with Professor William Watson presiding. Richard Hodgson presented experiments in automatic writing by Miss C., a fifteen year old, and detailed sittings with Mrs Piper in America. Hodgson attributes many results to telepathy and mind reading, with Phinnit as Piper’s main control, while noting some prophecies are likely coincidences and acknowledging atmospheric limitations in interpreting the phenomena.
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Society For Psychical Research
Association Hall
William Watson
Richard Hodson
T. Barkworth
Hodgson
Miss C
Mr. Barkworth
Henry Morton
Planchette
Africa
Chada
Piper
Dr. Phinnit
Jean Phinnit Seliville
Siddons
Sebastien Bach
Commodore Vanderbilt Longfellow
James
Walsh
Commodore Vanderbilt
Phinni
Phinnit
Minor Matters in Salem
Salem officials report county tax estimates total 222 890 dollars, up nearly 17 000 from last year with no funds set aside for the county truant school. Eight deaths occurred in Salem last week. Bertram Home for Aged Men reelected its old board as crowded conditions persist. Stephen Abbott Associates officers reelected after reports of purchasing the new cadet Armory and drill shed for about 30 000 dollars, with the property improving income.
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Salem
Bertram Home
Stephen Abbott Associates
Hood's Sarsaparilla touted to prevent rheumatism
An advertisement argues prevention is better than cure for rheumatism by keeping blood pure and acid free. It touts Hood's Sarsaparilla as the best blood purifier, claims success in preventing attacks and curing severest cases, and notes availability from Hood & Co. Lowell Mass with 100 doses for one dollar.
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N.B
All Druggiats
C. I. Hood & CO
Apothecaries
Lowell
Mass
New Hampshire Railroads Seek Stock Increases Sparks Debate
In Concord N H Jan 27 a House committee advanced a bill to raise Boston and Maine stock by 5 06 million with a third reading expected while opponents claim stock watering will face a lively fight Investors and editors from Nashua Manchester and Concord weigh in as lawmakers consider measures tied to Concord and Montreal and related rail lines A hearing on the Secret Ballot Law is set for tomorrow with city clerks expected to attend The Legislature also tackles military home funds and a mount Monadnock resolution in this broad session report
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N. H
Boston & Maine Road
Gramles A. Sinclair
John W. Sanborn
Wakefield
Damon
Compton
Heath
Manchester
Billies
Concord
Boston & Maine
New Hampshire
Weare
Hamilton
Suncook
Candia
William ©. Chandler
Nashua Telegraph
Moore
Manchester Union
Dr. Moore
Massachusetts
Mr. Moore
Frank Jones
Union
Chandler
Mount Onadnock
Temple
Peterboro
James Miller
Hawthorne
New England
Mount Monadnock
Boston Harbor
Miller
Lundy’s Lane
Representatives’ Hall
Curtis
Boston
Meeks
Salem
Mass
Page
Board of Managers
State Soldiers’ Home
Insurance Commissioners
Winnipiscogee Lake
Gilford
Clarke
Amoskeag
Dover
Steamer Arrivals Bring Jamaica Bananas and Oranges
The steamer Ethelwoola reaches Thursday with Jamaica bananas for Boston Fruit Company. The steamer Alexandria, sailing Gibraltar year 15, brings 4400 Valencia orange boxes. The Powhatan traveled from Palermo on January 20 with 16000 orange boxes 8760 lemon boxes 7100 mesina oranges and 2500 lemon boxes.
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Jamaica
Boston Fruit Company
Alexandria
Gibraltar
Valencia
Powhatan
Palermo
Messina
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Mr. Spinola
Charitable Irish Society
Auburndale Church
Boston Merchants
the Suffrage Association of Massachusetts Meets
T. W. Higginson
Marion Osgood
Henry B. Blackwell
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Mary F. Eastman
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Martha Sewell Curtis
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